{"id":10401,"date":"2022-10-16T22:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T22:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10401"},"modified":"2022-10-16T23:04:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T23:04:19","slug":"strong-earthquake-swarm-on-reykjanes-ridge-close-to-eldeyjardrangur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10401","title":{"rendered":"Strong earthquake swarm on Reykjanes ridge close to Geirfugladrangur and Eldeyjarbo\u00f0a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening on 16-October-2022 an strong earthquake swarm started close to Geirfugladrangur and Eldeyjarbo\u00f0a on the Reykjanes ridge. At the writing of this article the strongest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw4,4 but that might change without warning.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10402\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10402 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221016_2220.png\" alt=\"Red dots and green stars on the Reykjanes ridge out on the ocean. Reykjanes peninsula on the left side of the image\" width=\"540\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221016_2220.png 540w, https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/221016_2220-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earthquake activity close to Geirfugladrangur and Eldeyjarbo\u00f0a on the Reykjanes ridge. Image from Icelandic Met Office.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is difficult to know how this earthquake swarm is going to evolve but there are clues in this activity that this might be a large earthquake swarm. However, activity in this area is also known to just stop without warning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening on 16-October-2022 an strong earthquake swarm started close to Geirfugladrangur and Eldeyjarbo\u00f0a on the Reykjanes ridge. At the writing of this article the strongest earthquake had a magnitude of Mw4,4 but that might change without warning. It is difficult to know how this earthquake swarm is going to evolve but there are clues &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/?p=10401\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strong earthquake swarm on Reykjanes ridge close to Geirfugladrangur and Eldeyjarbo\u00f0a&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,301,296,40,23,57,32],"tags":[302,297,222,250],"class_list":["post-10401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-eldeyjarboda","category-geirfugladrangur","category-monitoring","category-reykjanes-ridge","category-swarm","category-volcano","tag-eldeyjarboda","tag-geirfugladrangur","tag-iceland","tag-reykjanes-ridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10406,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401\/revisions\/10406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandgeology.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}